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Is this CD what it appears? No - it's one of over 100 fakes, concocted in what is the most amazing musical fraud ever perpetrated.
In February 2007, Pristine Audio, in conjunction with Gramophone magazine, unearthed something quite unprecedented in the world of classical music. Here we present our findings:
"I've been mightily taken by the XR treatment...hugely impressive" (Gramophone, June 2007)
All of the recordings listed below have been transferred and remastered by Andrew Rose using Pristine Audio's unique XR remastering system, bringing lower noise, more accurate tonal reproduction and an extended frequency range to 78rpm recordings, using selective predictive equalisation to lift previously unheard harmonic frequencies from within the grooves of the original recordings.
Pristine Audio XR(Extended Range) builds on the technologies behind Pristine Audio's Natural Sound recordings to dig deeper into the grooves of early recordings than ever before and pull out the frequencies hidden there, previously lost behind surface noise and hiss.
These lost frequencies are then restored to their natural proportions alongside those already treated by our Natural Sound technique.
The results are astonishing - beyond anything you ever dreamed possible.
Following this frequency extraction and careful application of noise reduction we can, at long last, start to hear something approaching a true hi-fi sound from recordings made in the 1920's and 1930's.
There's no trickery involved, no artificial regeneration of frequencies (for many this seemed the most likely way to achieve this). What you hear is straight out of the record grooves, sounds lost for decades, with a frequency range approaching that of an FM radio broadcast.
Finally the great recordings of the golden era of 78s can stand sonically
alongside their modern counterparts!
"Very impressive... The sound...has depth and vividness that allows you to appreciate the wonderful attention to the work's pacing and, particularly, shading that Weingartner brings."
Gramophone, June 2007, on Weingartner's Eroica, a Gramophone Essential Download
For more on Pristine Audio Natural Sound and XR click here
Pristine Classical - bringing you DRM-free classical MP3 download music
Natural Sound
Natural Sound logo
In addition to our growing collection of XR-remasered recordings, look out for the Natural Sound logo.
Natural Sound was the name given to the process which immediately preceeded XR, and the two are about 90% identical in operation.
What Natural Sound lacked was the ability to dig deeply enough into upper the frequencies of older recordings to try and bring out otherwise lost harmonics.
However, in every other respect it achieves very similar results and brings huge advances in the field of historic recorded music.
The technique was developed whilst working on Toscanini's classical recording of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7:
This was reviewed in the January/February 2008 issue of Fanfare Magazine thus:
Wow!
Okay, you want more than a one-word review?
Double wow! A must-get disc. You all know, or should know, this performance. It has never sounded this good.
Look out for the Natural Sound logo on dozens of recordings at this site.
All of the recordings listed below have been transferred and remastered by Andrew Rose using Pristine Audio's unique XR remastering system, bringing lower noise, more accurate tonal reproduction and an extended frequency range to 78rpm recordings, using selective predictive equalisation to lift previously unheard harmonic frequencies from within the grooves of the original recordings.
